 | Myra Jehlen - 2002 - 254 pages
..."What would we really know the meaning of?" asked Emerson sweeping aside the long descent of erudition. "The meal in the firkin; the milk in the pan; the...news of the boat; the glance of the eye; the form and gait of the body."8 Though he was indubitably "very respectable," Emerson anticipated Hemingway's preference... | |
 | John Dizikes - 2002 - 374 pages
...themselves. I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic. I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low. Give me insight into...today, and you may have the antique and future worlds. Emerson's proclamation rang down through succeeding generations because it touched on ideas deeply... | |
 | Tracy B. Strong - 2002 - 236 pages
...remote, the romantic. ... I embrace the common. I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low, and you may have the antique and future worlds. What would we really know the meaning of? RW Emerson, The American Scholar The natural is always the historical. Martin Heidegger, What Is Called... | |
 | Richard Alan Krieger - 2007 - 344 pages
...one day gives, another takes." — George "Give me today, and take tomorrow." — St. John Chrysostom "Give me insight into today, and you may have the antique and future worlds." — Nietzsche "For there is no day however beautiful which has not its night." — Anonymous "Many... | |
 | Thomas H. Davenport, John C. Beck - 2001 - 278 pages
...attention in the new economy, attention measurement will be everywhere. Every performer, Overheard. "Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds." Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The American Scholar" author, sports star, and politician will be painfully aware... | |
 | Martin Bickman - 2003 - 193 pages
...value of applying intelligence and extracting wisdom from the minute particulars of our quotidian life: "What would we really know the meaning of? The meal...news of the boat; the glance of the eye; the form and gait of the body" (p. 69). He moves from external objects to our very modalities of knowing and experiencing.... | |
 | Stanley Cavell, David Justin Hodge - 2003 - 300 pages
...worldwide shrinking of the spirit. In the passage we have taken from "The American Scholar," Emerson says, "Give me insight into today, and you may have the antique and future worlds." In Nature he had said, "Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous."... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 396 pages
...Arabia; what is Greek art, or Provencal minstrelsy; I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low. Give me insight into...the glance of the eye; the form and the gait of the body;—show me the ultimate reason of these matters; show me the sublime presence of the highest spiritual... | |
 | Gary Storhoff - 2004 - 278 pages
...Scholar" (1837), for a writer to illuminate the wondrous possibilities of the mundane and the ordinary: "What would we really know the meaning of? The meal...glance of the eye; the form and the gait of the body." 18 Charles Johnson's Syncretistic Self In his book Religion in the Making, the philosopher Alfred North... | |
 | Philip Cafaro - 2010 - 288 pages
...knowledge of self, nature, and God. "What would we really know the meaning of?" he asks, and answers: "The meal in the firkin; the milk in the pan; the...street; the news of the boat; the glance of the eye Man is surprised to find that things near are not less beautiful and wondrous than things remote. .... | |
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What would we really know the meaning of? The meal in the firkin; the milk in the pan; the ballad in the street... 
